The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-09-17
A DRUGGISTS MISTAKE.
A Sick Mans Wife Distegards the Drug gist's Advice and So Saves the
 Life of Her Husband.

my line to write letters; but my wife thought it was no more than right that should let you know what your remedy has done for me, and think so too.
 live in East l57th street, west of Third avenue, and have lived there for abou. twenty three years, where own real estate. Up to the time am about to mention had been strong, well man. There was always more or less malaria in the neighborhood, but had not personally suffered from it. It was in 1880 had my first attack. It came on as such attacks commonly do, with headaches, loss of appetite and ambition, chilly sensa. tions with slight fever afterwards, a disposi. tion to yawn and stretch and so forth. I was employed at that time at killians & Brothers furniture manufacturers, in West asd street l hoped the attack would wear of, but as it didn't, l consulted well known and able physician in Morrisania, who gave me quinine and told me what to do I can sum m ths first four and half or i've years of my expe- rience in few words Occasionally was laid up for day or two but on the whole stuck to my work. I kept taking quinine, in larger doses from year to year, and kept on getting weaker and worse, slowly but surely, all the time. My trouble was now we'll de fined, and it's symptoms were steady and reg ular. had dumb ague in it's worst form, and 1t was grinding me down in spite of all that could do or the doctors could do It held me in grip like Gre in q burning coal mine. The poison had gone all through and over me- and nothing was able to touch It. was fast los ing flesh and strength, and about March, 1884 knocked of work entirely and went home to be down sick, and die for all could tell. rah down so rapidly that soon became unable to walk any distance, Later I went from room to room in my own house only by friends holding me up by each arm. The doses of aui- nine were increased until often took thtrtb 0rdins dt dose. The effects of this tremen dous stimulation was to make me nearly wild It broke my sleep all up, and I often walked the floor, or staggered about it, all night long, scarcely able to bear any noises or even hu.
 
 table. As to food, one of my little children would eat more in meal than could in day, would order food and then turn from 1t in disgust l lived qunine and other stimulants and nayseU, like a bear in win ter. The quinine set my head in whirl, and the iquor-given us mcdicine-made my stomach so sick could not tolerate it.
 From l75 pounds (my proper welght) l ran down to 97 pounds-the weight of a light girl and was scarcely better than skeleton
 D Daaybody had aken C hdtchet aud Knocked me dour aud killed me should hare been 6e4, ter oG.
 During the latter part of this period, early in 1886, my phy ysiciam said Miller, there's no use in my taking any money of you can't do you any good. might pour pounds of quinine down your throat, and it wouldn't help you
 On the strength of this l gave up the use ot quinine altogether, and made up my mind to do nothing more and take my chances Three weeks afterwards-about the last of
 
 kline in New York paper. She told me of it. said: stun and nonsense! it can't do me any good" But she went to druggists, nevertheless, to get it. The druggist advised her against kaskine he said it was nothing but sugar; that she ought not to throw away her money on it, etc. He said he didn't keep it, but could get it if she insisted on having it. Turning away in disgust, my wife spoke to our neighbor, Mir. A. G. Hegewald. who got her a bottle at drug store in Sixth avenue.
 Almost against my will, and without the least faith, began taking it. In one week was better. I began to sleep. I stopped "seeing ghosts" began to have an appetite and to gain strength. This was now the frs, of June, 1886, and by the end of that month was back at my bench at c. r. smiths scroll saving factory in lleth street, where I work now.
 Since then 1 have never lost a day from slck- ness Taking Kaskine only, about forty pei. lets in four equal doses a day, I continued to gain. The malaria appeared to be killed in my system, and now I've got back my old weight-l75 pounds-and my old strength to labor. l am an astonishment to myself and to my friends, and if Kaskine did not do this don't know what did. The only greater thing it could do would be to bring a dead man to life. fREDKRICK A. MILLER,
 6so East l57th street, New York
 r. S.-For the absolute truth of the above statement refer to the following gentlemen. who are personally acquainted with the facts Mir. Alexander Weir, 6s6 l56th St.; Mr George Seaman, l5sth street and Courtlandt avenue; Mir. \. Moebus, l54th street and CourtlAadt avenue; Mir. P. F. Vaupel. l5lth street and Courtlandt avenue; Mir John Lunny, 60 East I5sth street; Mir. John Renshaw, IA Ia6th street, and many others. l will also reply to